He is eligible for his old age pension, £7k a year.

£12k assuming he's paid his NI conts - if not pension credit* and legal aid.


*other benefits are available

It's Andrew's Birthday today. Why pick today?

So someone could use a headline like "Norfolk OAP in police raid drama". Which no one did.

bamboo can grow at up to 3ft a day 

Snap!

great minds etc 

I think you might be surprised how low you get. The odd birdie will cancel out the long holes where bogeys are the targets.

Any editable thingy will do to record - just list the holes and the best scores beside them.

unless there is an app for eclectic scores, a good old spreadsheet would be the way to do it. Maybe wait till you have played a few rounds before starting? Or just mark in the bogeys/pars/birdies/eagles till you were almost there? Be a pretty good target for a high handicapper to get a sub-par eclectic, imo. 

The 26yo's claim is obviously idiotic. The idea is probably to stimulate a denial (as windsor is too stupid to kep his mouth shut) and then instigate libel proceedings.

Am I a hypocrite?

AI Overview
A hypocrite is generally defined as someone who acts in contradiction to their stated beliefs, principles, or feelings, often preaching virtues they do not practice. It involves a gap between public presentation (a "mask") and private actions, or holding others to a standard you do not follow.

Key Indicators: Common behaviors include saying one thing but doing another, giving advice you don't follow, or judging others for actions you commit yourself.

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If you are questioning your actions, you are likely self-reflecting, which is a step away from being a true hypocrite

I flicked thru the vid, but it didn't appear to show the magic of the drop, that if you snap the tail, it completely shatters, despite holding tons of force without difficulty.

Both still alive 90+ which is quite an achievement given hollywood party lifestyle.

I actually knew what Prince Ruperts drops were but had forgotten, once again proving that learning something new every day isn't difficult, but remembering it is.

re shepherds pie - I've never found a ready meal that has ground meat in it to be at all edible. I can buy standard mince and cook it well enough, but ready meal manufacturers seem to find it impossible and the result is almost always gritty, gristly yuk.

re food, I am a bit of a ready meal man, mostly due to laziness. Not for the cooking, but for the cleaning up after. eg I used to like a stir fry but the thin film of grease it creates over the ceramic hob is duch a chore to clean off. Similarly cooking a steak at a very high temperature.   

thought you would have worked that out with reference to my lifestyle of doing what I like when I like 

you're forgetting hande hoch, achtung and raus! raus!

I took to visiting Vienna for three or four weeks for a few years pre-covid. The weather was good for wandering around and they had two quite big poker rooms. So I started to learn a it of german then. After the covid break the card rooms shut down. There were some new regulations brought in that only licensed casinos could do poker comps, so the rooms never re-opened.

One of my sisters in law is german and my two nephews speak it, so I've kept up the learning, after a fashion. At Xmas I was down at my brother's and his mother-in-law was over and she speaks very little english, but we were able to have a little bit of conversation which was good. She's ninety years old and I only mentioned the war once, but I think I got away with it.
 

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